Update with unredacted records (Philadelphia’s RAISE Grant Applications - North Philly School Zones and Eakins Oval)

In August I did a post about the City’s RAISE grant applications. https://www.meganshannonrtk.com/blog/philadelphias-raise-grant-applications-north-philly-school-zones-and-eakins-oval. The City produced copies of their grant applications with the line items in the proposed budget redacted. Because there is no proper basis to redact that, I filed an appeal to the Office of Open Records. And I won! In accordance with the OOR’s Final Determination, the City finally produced unredacted copies of the grant applications, so I get to look at the proposed budgets the Streets Department came up with. Here is how they proposed spending $29 million to do traffic safety at 6 schools (the grant they actually won), and the proposal for traffic safety at Eakins oval (in the grant they didn’t get).

Here are the full, unredacted versions of the grant applications:

FY2023 RAISE_Eakins Oval Final UNREDACTED by megankshannon on Scribd

2023 RAISE_ North Philadelphia Schools FINAL UNREDACTED by megankshannon on Scribd

The OOR’s Final Determination is here: